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How Did You Get to Be Mexican? : A White/brown Man's Search for Identity
author
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Johnson, Kevin R.
publisher
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Temple University Press
isbn10 | asin
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1566396514
print isbn13
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9781566396516
ebook isbn13
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9780585363172
language
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English
subject
Johnson, Kevin R, Mexican Americans--Biography, Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity, Racially mixed people--United States--Biography, Racially mixed people--United States--Race identity, United States--Race relations.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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E184.M5J58 1998eb
ddc
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305.868/72073/092
subject
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Johnson, Kevin R, Mexican Americans--Biography, Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity, Racially mixed people--United States--Biography, Racially mixed people--United States--Race identity, United States--Race relations.
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How Did You Get to Be Mexican?
A White/Brown Man's Search for Identity
Kevin R. Johnson
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Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook.
Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122 Copyright 1999 by Temple University All rights reserved Published 1999 Printed in the United Slates of America
The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z.39.481984
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Johnson, Kevin R. How did you get to be Mexican? A white/brown man's search for identity / Kevin R. Johnson p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-56639-650-6 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 1-56639-651-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Johnson, Kevin R. 2. Mexican Americans Biography. 3. Mexican AmericansEthnic identity. 4. Racially mixed peopleUnited StatesBiography. 5. Racially mixed people United StatesRace identity. 6. United States Race relations. I. Title. E184.M5J58 1998 305.868'72073'092dc21 [B] 98-11811 CIP
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To Virginia Salazar and Teresa, Toms, And Elena Salazar Johnson To My Parents, Angela and Kenneth
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Contents
Preface
ix
1 Introduction
1
2 A "Latino" Law Student? Law 4 Sale at Harvard Law School
10
3 My Mother: One Assimilation Story
52
4 My Father: Planting the Seeds of a Racial Consciousness
64
5 Growing Up White?
73
6 College: Beginning to Recognize Racial Complexities
89
A Family Gallery
101
7 A Corporate Lawyer: Happily Avoiding the Issue
109
8 A Latino Law Professor
121
9 My Family/Mi Familia
139
10 Lessons for Latino Assimilation
152
11 What Does It All Mean for Race Relations in the United States?
175
Notes
183
Bibliography
217
Index
235
Page ix
Preface
Like other "mixed-race" people, I live in a unique place in U.S. society, a metaphorical borderlands between two worlds. The son of a Mexican American mother and an Anglo father, my identity was forged in an era of great change in racial sensibilities in the United States. In my lifetime, the study of civil rights expanded beyond simple black/white relations, multiculturalism rose (and fell?), affirmative action was invented and dismantled. The racial demographics of the U.S. population changed dramatically, in no small part due to immigration. And immigrants of color became the object of a ferocious nativism not seen in the United States since the 1920s.
Against this backdrop, slowly, sometimes painfully, I developed my Latino identity. Jerome McCristal Culp, Jr. tells his law school classes that he is the son of a poor coal miner. By so doing, he undermines the "homogeneity myth" that all African Americans are "the same with the same essential experience."1 Like the African American community, the Latino community is not homogeneous. This book is my attempt to help make this clear. Though autobiographical in nature, it sheds light on issues of general significance to the Latino community as well as to the study of contemporary race relations.
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But while this is my story, many people have helped to make this book happen. Richard Delgado initially approached me with the idea for the book and persuaded me that I could do it. I appreciate his support and encouragement at every step along the way.
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